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FENCE POST.

No. 337,646. Patented Mar. 9, 1886.

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ORSON M. ALLABEN, OF MARGARETVILLE, NEW YORK.

FENCE-POST.

SPECEFICAIION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337.646, dated March 9, 1886.

Application filed December 9, 1885. Serial No. 185,123. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORSON M. ALLABEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Margaretville. in the county of Delaware and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fence-Posts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates especially to material for fence construction, and it has for its object the provision of a cheap, simple, and durable post wherewith a fence maybe easily and substantially made with either ordinary fence boards, rails,or poles or with wire. At suitable intervalsupon each side of the post are formed or secured sockets for the reception of the extremities of the connecting rails, bars, boards, or poles, a perforation in the post above each socket being designed to receive a pin or wedge, which rests upon the top of the rails, securing them in place. The top of each post is provided with a projecting stud, which passesthrough perforations in the ends of the top boards or rails, a horizontal pin holding the top rails firmly in place, all of which will be hereinafter first fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is aside elevation of my improved fence-post, and Fig. 2 is a view of several panels of completed fence.

Like letters of reference, wherever they occur, indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

A is the body of the post, made of cast metal, preferably hollow, and pointed at its lower extremity.

B are diagonal braces, passing through the post into the earth.

D are sockets formed upon or secured to the sides of the post and arranged to receive ordinary fence-boards, L, or any other suitable connecting-rails.

E are perforations through the post above the sockets, and F are wedges or pins driven into the perforations E above the rails L. When it is desired to use wire instead of rails,

it may be wrapped around each post above the sockets or passed through perforations E.

G is a stud projecting from the top of the post, perforated at H for the reception of a pin, 1.

Lare the top rails, preferably matched at N, said rails being perforated so as to pass over the stud G, the pin I holding them firmly in place, bracing the fence linearly.

\Vhen constructed and arranged in accordance with the foregoing description, my improved fence will be found admirably adapted to the uses and purpose for which it is intended. The posts may be employed with any kind of material-boards, slats, rails. poles, or wires. The posts are firmly braced at bottom against side movement and against linear movement by rails L. as well as by the intermediate rails, L. When desired, one or more panels may be removed without disturbing the remainder of the fence.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A fence consisting of posts A, perforat ed at B for the reception of diagonal braces O, and provided with sockets D. perforations E, and perforated stud G, rails L L. and wedges or pins F and I, the whole combined and arranged substantially as shown and described.

2. The herein-described fence-post, consisting of body A, provided with diagonal perforations or slots B for the reception of side pieces or braces, G, sockets D, perforations E, and perforated stud G for the reception of thetop rails of a fence, substantially as shown and described.

Signed at Margaretville, in the county of Delaware and State of New York, this 12th day of November, A. D. 1885.

ORSON M. ALLABEN. Witnesses:

J. K. P. JACKSON, ALEX. G. J AUKSON. 

